Worth a thousand words: reader art inspired by poetry – in pictures

Worth a thousand words: reader art inspired by poetry – in pictures

From politics to matters of the heart via a deserted dining room, here are the best of your works inspired by favourite poems. Versifying stuff

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Mon 1 Sep 2014 09.45 EDT
Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 12.32 EST

September 1, 1939 by Auden. ‘The poem was written in 1939 in the US so location, date, and title are all represented in the postmark and Auden’s expat status is referenced by the airmail letter.’ Photograph:
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Tall Dames from Seamus Heaney’s District & Circle, 2006. ‘This photomontage was inspired by the great Seamus Heaney’s Tall Dames, where he distinguishes between ‘gypsies’ and ‘tinkers’ (now Travellers) as understood in 1940s Ireland.’ Photograph:
Lucyhelen/GuardianWitness

Welsh Raiding Party on the Wire with Gestas – a WW1 Crucifixion. ‘This is one of a series of my paintings inspired by the world war one poem In Parenthesis by the artist-poet David Jones.’Photograph:
Gestas/GuardianWitness

Larkin’s Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel. ‘Through open doors, the dining-room declares/ A larger loneliness of knives and glass/ And silence laid like carpet...’Photograph:
Larosecarmine/GuardianWitness